Love or hate online learning (E-learning) it has been here longer than you think. It will certainly never completely replace the social interaction of face-to-face learning, yet it does have numerous advantages. Many organizations and individuals get consumed with the idea that online learning is the only way to learn. The fact of the matter […]
You need to sustain your market share, increase profits, work smarter and increase corporate social responsibility, as well as be emotionally intelligent. You need employees with the right skills, knowledge and behaviors to communicate effectively with clients, global outlooks, managers who can coach their teams to empower them and leaders with cross-cultural experience. What’s the […]
Before you can train and develop your team, you have to recruit them! Employee’s viewpoint…. To simplify the issue, I am looking from the viewpoint of an employee in the GCC (any nationality!) who wants to find a better job, or who has been made redundant and needs a replacement job very soon, as opposed […]
New developments in educational technology and increasingly sophisticated learning technologies are beginning to have a major impact on multi-national organizations. It is clear that local organizations need to change to accommodate the impact of technology on learning. Learning Technology has a main challenge which is “resistance to change”. While technology brings change, individuals and societies […]
‘Action Learning’ for Leadership Development – Is this still a viable learning option? “There is no learning without action and no action without learning” (Reg Revins 1998). L = P + Q Learning = Programmed (knowledge) + Questions (insight). Many may have heard of ‘Action Learning’ being talked about within the training fraternity, but how […]
In many ways, technology advances in the training field have revolutionized the methodology of creating, presenting and evaluating training and development programs. Online learning offers many benefits to both employers and employees, considering factors such as cost, time, convenience, accessibility, and subject matter variety, and enables both a simple delivery system coupled with unfettered geographic […]
Why measure leadership development? Leadership development maturity is characterized by an organizational mindset of employees as corporate assets, with clearly defined future focused development processes and competencies. A consistent level of involvement of business leaders to embrace the initiative and support in taking into account the organization’s leadership needs, makes it an integrated leadership development […]
Recently I was invited as a speaker to the NNPC (Nigerian National Petroleum Company) forum held in Dubai for some of their managers. The presentation covered “How to motivate teams to achieve company goals.” During the presentation, as we were discussing the skills required for a manager to achieve these goals, the question of Leadership […]
With the summit of Expo 2020 visible in the horizon of Dubai, the peak can be scaled only by talented manpower that would imbibe the spirit of its vision into its core. The success of the event is directly dependent on acquiring, developing, sustaining and rewarding the talent that is required. The global expanse of […]
Why leadership development… Improving leadership development programs, growing talent internally and enhancing effectiveness of the senior management team are some of the top challenges on the minds of CEO’s, alongside business growth. We need great leaders to shape and sustain our organizations and to mould our future leaders. We need leaders leading with a winning […]
